Ye gods.
Being only vaguely familiar (I have a first-cousin Ćwe who loooooves his beer and sausage; heās 100% right-off-the-boat German stock), I had to go look up the facts about gout just to grok what the heck itās all about. I already knew that Ćwe had those beers/rich meats as triggers.
Wow. So many nerve endings in human feet, too.
Then I looked up countermeasures, because I knew most Official Medical Science says thereās no cure for gout. The āavoid these triggersā list is a rogueās gallery of all the tasty stuff that makes lifeā¦ tasty. Dang! Life is full of veritable landmines, no?
For a while, I was trying to dodge coffee (I had suspected it was a trigger for my migraines), drinking either DandyBlend (on tap at my chiropractorāsānot bad!) or Rajaās Cup (expensive!āmoreso than even good coffee; it tastes ok). I also tried this by Teecino, also not bad. Not great, but not bad. Then Iād go look for an electric socket to jolt myself awake the rest of the way, just like Dr. Lizardo in Buckaroo Banzai.
I kid. I kid. Butā¦
On other thing comes to mind, and I donāt know if itās all that helpful. Long ago I had a boyfriend who had to take prednisone (daily) for his asthma. He used to take the edge off with pot brownies. Keeping in mind that THC etc. etc. tends to affect one more strongly in stuff like baked goods, it was typical for him to nibble, bite by bite, on brownies, all day long, just enough to keep him from being a snarling 'roid victim. He sometimes would set a timer to ensure timed doses, and heād cut the brownies up into uniform bites, ~1" cubes. His self-discipline to not simply gobble down the entire brownie pan was pretty admirableāit took a lot for me to not want to gobble down a big slice myself! Obviously smoking pot was out of the question, since his lungs were already compromised by his asthma.
Obviously if youāre involved in the kind of work that precludes this type of self-medicating, this is of no help. And if they drug-test at your workplace, that goes double. I know youāre in San Francisco these days. Maybe the job climate there is more tolerant.
Good luck Sir. Keep breathinā and stay away from those blutwursts, I suppose.
; - )